https://www.newsmax.com/jackbrewer/trump-obama-hbcu-food-stamps/2019/07/12/id/924217/
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/08/25/van-jones-tells-cnn-panel-theres-no-denying-what-trump-has-done-for-black-community-n2574987
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/donald-trump-right-what-obamas-done-black-america-n403881
Is this more than Lyndon B. Johnson accomplished for Black Americans? 
First Step Act
I would have never imagined seeing Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in the White House discussing criminal justice policy.
Just like I would have never imagined seeing Alice Johnson given clemency and the long awaited Jack Johnson legacy receiving a presidential pardon.
These highly publicized cases were both denied by the Obama Administration over two consecutive terms as president. In less than two years in the Oval Office, President Trump continued his push for criminal justice reform by passing the First Step Act which targeted many shackled by the unfair and unjust sentencing laws which were instituted by the Bill Clinton 1994 Crime Bill.
It’s hard to imagine that President Trump, not Barack Obama, would pass the most comprehensive criminal justice reform bill in decades. Despite Barack Obama having Democratic control of all branches of government for his first two years, the priority just never seemed to be put on addressing the issues that were the most oppressive for underserved Blacks in America.
If you are wonder where you can find an influx of our black fathers, look no further than our jails and prisons. Though blacks make up a little over 12 percent of the U.S. population, blacks make up over 40 percent of those incarcerated. In a very short period of time, President Donald J. Trump took action against this injustice. As a result of the First Step Act, thousands of inmates across America have been released and had their sentences reduced.
Out of all of the beneficiaries of the First Step Act, 91% of the total inmates released have been Black Americans! Unfortunately you don’t see this headline on liberal media outlets as much as we should.
Funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
“Established by visionary leaders, America’s HBCUs have long played an integral role in our Nation’s history, providing Black Americans opportunities to learn and achieve their dreams.” –President Donald J. Trump
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) have been at the backbone of educating blacks since the end of slavery.
During times when blacks were oppressed the most in America, brave African Americans risked their lives to establish institutions for blacks to receive a higher education. To my surprise, Trump appointed his Presidential Advisory Board on HBCU’s and signed an executive order to push funding in programs, passing HBCU legislation faster than any other President in American history. This included pushing to increase the annual budgets by 25% as well as supporting much needed work study programs for HBCU’s.
I have long called for “Reparations through Education” as a way to help bridge the gap caused by slavery.
In my opinion no black person in America who is an ancestor of the former slave population should have to pay for a state college or university in this country. It’s the least we can do.
Though this bill didn’t address the issue of reparations, it is a step in the right direction for the higher education of Blacks in America. And yes, the Trump Administration has done significantly more in his time as president for HBCU’s compared to the Obama Administration.
Jobs
Many forget that the primary focus of the Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights marches was for “Jobs and Freedom.”
Since the end of slavery and throughout Jim Crow, blacks across America have fought for the right to earn a decent living. Nearly 50 years after MLK’s push for Jobs, President Trump started his campaign by touting himself as the greatest jobs president in history. Now he is actually producing some of the greatest jobs numbers ever recorded.
As a young Wall Street banker I paid very close attention to the monthly jobs numbers for African Americans. Now let’s give Trump credit where credit is due. African American unemployment has reached its lowest rate in modern history for both black men and women. This is actually the case for almost all ethnic groups in America.
The most impressive number of them all is the fact that almost 70% of working black women currently hold a white collar job, compared to just over 40% of black men.
The Tax plan and Jobs Act has help to stimulate this.
So clearly having a tax code that drops the corporate rate to 21% will have a huge impact on a growing number of African American families. Under the Obama tax code, these same entrepreneurs would pay nearly double this amount of taxes.
As many media outlets downplay the effects of the Trump Administration economic policies, the IRS tax filings won’t lie. And neither will the unemployment rate, which some skeptics say improved more under Obama verses President Trump. The key point that most who argue this choose to ignore is the fact that we are at full employment for first time in our nation's history! It seems like it would be a little harder to lower unemployment when the economy already has reached a point where we’ve had more jobs than workers to fill them.
Welfare and Food Stamp
Food stamps and welfare have helped my immediate family in the past and still helps some of those closest to me.
This is a safety net for many Americans that helps make our nation as great as it is. But when you promote food stamp programs to healthy, able-bodied individuals as an alternative to work, there lies your problem.
While Obama was widely known as the “Food Stamp President,” his administration took unprecedented measures to make it simple for states to sign up their able-bodied residents for food stamps.
Immediately following the financial crises of 2008, our country was in desperate need of food stamps and other government assistance. But enrollment kept expanding even as the unemployment rate declined and the gross domestic product (GDP) started rising. In short, the economy returned to normal, but food stamp enrollment did not.
This took a toll on the black community and further incentivized many to depend on government assistance verses seeking employment.
President Trump fortunately took a new approach and has put his energy into helping able-bodied food stamp recipients to get back into the work force. This trend has worked well and the Trump Administration has seen nearly 5 million Americans come off of food stamps.
For example, once the city of Kansas City added a work requirement for food stamp recipients, it halved the average time people received assistance, from 14 to seven months. The share of those employed jumped from 18 percent to 36 percent, and wages increased from an average of $6,000 to $13,000. I’ll be the first to admit that welfare programs are never perfect and there will always be unfortunate cases where someone who really needs helps get left out. Black America deserves a safety net when needed, but we don’t deserve institutionalized oppression through promoting a dependency on government aid. We need jobs and freedom like MLK marched and died fighting for.
I’m sure that I’ll get a ton of backlash from many of my black peers and several of my liberal colleagues as well. It’s hard for a lot of people to look beyond their personal style preferences to embrace the amazingly effective Trump Administration policies.
It’s even more interesting to see so many people who will support a policy initiated by the political affiliation that they prefer, yet they lash out against the same policies when they’re pushed by the opposite political party. Just check your favorite politician's perspectives on illegal immigration and criminal justice reform just a decade ago. Democrats have mastered this manipulation when it comes to winning the black vote, with most candidates not even needing to campaign to the black demographic. Democrats have been able to create a political correctness philosophy that has successfully lumped illegal immigration, minimum wage, LGBTQ rights and racism towards African Americans all into one blended issue. It’s comical really. The political party of slavery, Jim Crow, the 1994 Crime Bill, and welfare dumping has now branded themselves as the voice of social justice.
Well as a lifelong Democrat, I say enough is enough.
Former Obama adviser and political commentator Van Jones told a CNN panel Monday evening that there is no denying what President Trump has done for the black community.
Jones specifically pointed to the Trump administration's successes on criminal justice reform and restoring funding to historically black colleges and universities.
"Everybody here..should applaud the fact that the Trump administration has helped the black colleges, criminal justice reform. There is stuff here that should be applauded," he said.
During the first night of the Republican National Convention a number of black Trump supporters were featured who discussed, in part, what the president has done for the black community.
In addition to the administration's efforts on criminal justice reform and HBCUs, Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones (D) also pointed to the president's support of school choice, police reform, and unleashing an economy that saw record low unemployment for African Americans.
"On issue after issue, and in just a single term, he destroyed these negative forces that have victimized the black community for decades," Jones said. "He gave us the opportunity to rise."
The Georgia Democrat warned the left that there is a "large and growing segment of the black community who are independent thinkers," and they're "becoming more woke and louder than ever."
Similarly, Sen Tim Scott proudly spoke about his work with Trump on Opportunity Zones, what he described as "the first new, major effort to tackle poverty in a generation."
He told the powerful story about how his family "went from Cotton to Congress in one lifetime" and that he has hope America's future can be even better - a place where citizens can still attain the American dream.
"I’m here tonight to tell you that supporting the Republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality," he concluded.
Additionally, former NFL player Herschel Walker spoke warmly about his decades-long friendship with Trump, attesting to his character and values.
"It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald. The worst one is “racist.” I take it as a personal insult that people would think I would have a 37-year friendship with a racist. People who think that don’t know what they are talking about. Growing up in the deep south, I have seen racism up close. I know what it is. And it isn’t Donald Trump," he said.
"Just because someone loves and respects the flag, our National Anthem, and our country doesn’t mean they don’t care about social justice. I care about all of those things, and so does Donald Trump," he continued. "He shows how much he cares about social justice and the black community through his actions. And his actions speak louder than any stickers or slogans on a jersey."
All this is to say, hats off to Van Jones for giving the president credit where credit's due. He has helped the black community in his first term more than Joe Biden did in his 47 years in elected office, and like Vernon Jones said, more and more black Americans are taking notice.
This weekend, ever-opinionated billionaire candidate for president Donald Trump lowed the boom on President Obama on the often discussed issue of what the first black President has done for African Americans.
"He has done nothing for African Americans. You look at what's gone on with their income levels. You look at what's gone on with their youth. I thought that he would be a great cheerleader for this country. I thought he'd do a fabulous job for the African-American citizens of this country. He has done nothing," Trump said.
"They have problems now in terms of unemployment numbers, look at their unemployment numbers. And you have— here you have a black president who's done very poorly for the African Americans of this country," Trump added.
Unemployment -- According to the Department of Labor, when President Obama took office in January 2008, the Black unemployment rate was 12.7 percent. The best Black unemployment number during the Obama Administration so far was in June 2015 at 9.5 percent. The best Black unemployment rate during George Bush's presidency was 7.7 percent in August 2007. The worst number under Bush was 12.1 in December 2008. The worst Black unemployment under Obama was 16.8 in March 2011 -- a 28 year high -- according to the Department of Labor.
But the landscape is a bit more complicated than the numbers. In 2011, evidence of a so-called "Black Manession" emerged. In September 2014, reports on the Black female unemployment rate showed at 10.6 percent, the same as it was the year before. Many assert that hiring discrimination and the fact that many have left the job market all together are factors for high Black unemployment overall.
Poverty -- The poverty rate for African Americans has become worse over the past few years. It was 25 percent when President Bush left office. It rose to 28 percent in 2013 -- the most recent stat available. One out of three black children, 38 percent of all African American children, lived in poverty in 2013, as reported by PEW on July 14. Overall, there are more people living in poverty in the U.S. than at other time in U.S. history at 45 million people.
Education -- There has been major progress underPresident Obama in education with regard to high school dropout rates. According to the Department of Education, High School dropout rates are at a historic low, with the greatest progress seen among African Americans and Hispanics. Overall the national high school graduation rate hit an all time high in 2013 of 81.4 percent.
Between 2010-11 and 2012-13, graduation rates for Hispanic students increased by over four percentage points from 71 percent to 75.2 percent, and Black students increased by nearly four percentage points from 67 percent to 70.7 percent. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics.
Health Care -- President Obama's victories in Congress for comprehensive health care coverage as well as his recent win in the Supreme Court, means that many African Americans will benefit. By March 2015, over 16 million Americans had enrolled in Obamacare. Because of Obamacare, the rates of uninsured Americans have fallen to 11.9 percent after being at 16 percent when President Bush left office.
Over 3 million poor Americans, including hundreds of thousands of African Americans in the South would be covered if not for Republican governors blocking the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. In 2014, many health care advocates worked to get around the the attempts to block coverage.
Justice -- President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act in 2010 which narrowed the penalty between crack and powder cocaine from 1:100 to 1:18. Last year, President Obama established a task force on policing and this year he rolled back the use of certain military equipment by local police -- a Black Lives Matter related demand.
During the Obama presidency, the Department of Justice has investigated several police departments including Ferguson, Cleveland and Philadelphia under former Attorney General Eric Holder and current Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Income Inequality -- Income inequality between black and white is at its widest point in 25 years. According to a study by PEW in 2014, the average white household is worth $141,900, while the average black one is worth $11,000.
The foreclosure crisis that hit hardest in 2007 and 2008 disproportionately hurt black homeowners because they were targeted by banks for subprime loans. (In 2008, the cities of Cleveland and Baltimore sued Wells Fargo over those practices.)
Focus on Black Males -- In February 2014, President Obama introduced My Brother's Keeper, to specifically focus on improving the lives of young African American males. The initiative is encouraging nonprofits to raise $200 million in five years for programs focused on young men of color. Though My Brother's Keeper is not a federally funded government program, no such effort has existed before under any American President. President Obama is said to be planning to make My Brother's Keeper a major part of leaves office.
Trump's critique of President Obama comes at a point when the President is entering the fourth quarter of his presidency. In recent months he has spoken bluntly on racism and the lack of opportunity in America and he has announced programs and initiatives geared toward minority communities. With 16 months left, President Obama appears to be well aware that he needs to push more on African American issues.
Straight off of the Donald J. Trump website????
Please.
A lot of us feel this way. This was of course more evident pre-pandemic -- which hurt the black community disproportionately.
People will always respect efforts that benefit themselves and their families -- thus their self-esteem and self-worth.
The folks that mention Johnson, others and, even, Lincoln should go back and study their history. The things that they did were in a very large part done for strictly political reasons. They were not done solely as a benefit to help the black community at all. They were also usually just a one issue here or there to placate certain groups.
Economically and politically, you want to promote and pass legislation that helps Americans as a whole. Not to isolate or pick and choose ones that you 'think' will help to just garner votes or seem as if you have helped.
We want things in place to make it a fair opportunity to achieve what everyone else here in America has done. When you see the jobless rate come down to record levels, education going up, crime coming down -- these are the things that lead people to have a sense of worth. We do not just want free things given to us. That does not make everyone feel a part of the country and feel that they have equal opportunity to succeed in the best country ever.
Trump's ego is making him really want to keep his promises. He built the best economy ever. Now, despite the pandemic, he is doing it again.
We are all part of this. Making useless and nonfactual claims of racism does not help to achieve this at all.
All of these numbers are easily found and backed up if one wants to sincerely look them up. The polls showing feelings of positivity are available as well.
People too often just want to adhere to their ideological views -- even when the evidence clearly points in the other direction.
For the last few years, many, many articles and studies have been written about Trump's positive influence on the Black community. This has even been done by Liberals -- as I quoted above.
Democrats too often stick to their old strategy of using racism as a political tactic to try to win elections. It did not work last time; it would not have worked pre-pandemic -- and I hope it does not work this time.
At some point Democrats will realize we are not always dumb enough to fall for their okey-doke.
Hilarious.
Nothing Fat Donnie has done for African-Americans is for political reasons??
The brainwashed crew is too much.
Raiders,
I think we have been better off passing by each other...I am not interested in your cut and paste rehash..if I wanted to read articles I would go look for them. You so rarely discuss topics and ignore direct questions lets just keep with what works.
You did not answer the question...the big guy made one of his whopper claims, like he does pretty much every moment he is awake...what you threw up here does not even come close to answering the claim HE made...and I find it interesting how you credit him with any of this. The guy knows little more than when is McDonalds delivering lunch and when can I get 18 holes in. He did none of what you are suggesting...seriously give it a rest. He made this absurd ridiculous abhorrent claim...he made it, he owns it. Did you credit him with creating the cure for the virus yet? I am sure when someone else does the work the dope will claim it is his just like all that funny stuff you listed.
I have told you before it is not cut and paste -- it is copy and paste.
I have also told you before -- I will always answer questions, you just will not like the answers. I always discuss topics -- unlike you that only want to snipe back and forth with folks that do not agree with your talking points. That is useless and adds nothing substantive.
I know you do not want to read articles -- but you should. Maybe you could learn something instead of just spouting your anti-Trump opinions that are not based on facts.
The articles are what back up his claim -- they actually use data and facts. Unlike you and the rest of the Left who just use talking point and opinion that are not backed up by facts.
But you go ahead and carry on blindly. 
Imagine touting LBJ and the creation of the welfare state.
Go back and look at some of LBJ’s quotes.
— From the Civil War to Lyndon Johnson, Southern Democrats utilized the negative motivation of intimidation to keep African Americas from voting.
But as television and media reporting revealed the horrors of these intimidation tactics, it was bad press for the Democrat Party.
Political strategists proposed the switch to a different tactic in order to control minority voting, from "intimidation" to "entitlement." —
It’s amazing how little some people know.
Yeah same stuff from you, no answers and lots of complaining. The comment I made, the only comment I made was the big boy opened his trap and said something idiotic..he does it every day but this one was absurd.
Trump does not care about African Americans or their community, he is elitist white snobbery. Someone needs to stand behind him with a zapper and stop him from saying insulting moronic things...and yes I think he is full of crap and cares about nothing but his interests. He shows this all the time, he is not interested in anyone but himself and forwarding his elitist views.
So did Trump yet say that he cured the virus yet? Yeah he is such a great guy almost equal to Abraham Lincoln...how you guys cant just say he was being stupid and move along is way beyond me. I can say Biden is a moron and a snob in the same way I can say Trump is. The only difference is Trump has to rub his big fat butt in peoples faces and spit on them literally and verbally. At least Biden attempts to hold back quite a bit more. I'd take that stiff Romney over Trump and his brash abusive trap any day...
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